Question

The timestamp I get from a server’s SOAP response is formatted in European Notation and in GMT time (ex: 08/07/2010 11:22:00 AM). I want to convert it to local time and change the formatting to (MM/DD/2010 HH:MM:SS AM/PM).

I know about the JavaScript Date object but can’t figure out the logic of how to do the conversion. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

var serverTimestamp = storArray[a][0];
var pieces = serverTimestamp.split('/'); 
storArray[a][0] = pieces[1] + '/' + pieces[0] + '/' + pieces[2];
var gmt = new Date(storArray[a][0]);
var localTime = gmt.getTime() - (gmt.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000); // convert gmt date to minutes
var localDate = new Date(localTime); // convert it into a date